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Car photographer · Dubai

Car photography in Dubai, for showrooms, dealers and brands.

I'm a car photographer in Dubai, an automotive photographer shooting stills for dealerships, showrooms and brands, mostly indoors under light I can control. A two-vehicle listing set is AED 1,250, a half day is AED 2,250 for up to 4 cars and 20 edited images, and a full day is AED 4,200 for up to 8 cars and 45 images. I shoot, grade and deliver the set myself: listing set same day; graded hero frames within 3 business days.

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Bugatti Chiron Super SportProject One Motors

Porsche 911 GT3 - Paint to Sample PinkProject One Motors

Brabus G800 WidestarProject One Motors

Ferrari F8 SpiderProject One Motors

Photography and video aren't the same job, even on the same car

A film gets to move. It can travel along a curve and let a highlight run the length of a panel, and if one angle doesn't work the next second of footage fixes it.

A still has one frame to do all of that, so the work moves forward instead: where the car stands, where the reflections land, and what the frame leaves out. Cars are mirrors with wheels. On a photograph there's no second pass at a bad reflection.

Indoors, under light I can control

The Bugatti Chiron Super Sport set was shot inside, in a studio, under studio lighting, where I control every source instead of working around the house lighting.

Most of what I shoot is indoors under light I can control rather than out in the middle of a Dubai afternoon, where the sun sits directly overhead for most of the working day and does a car no favours at all.

The grade is where the time goes

A dark car photographed honestly sits near black, and near black is where cheap editing falls apart. Either it gets crushed into a silhouette with no panel detail left, or it gets lifted until the black turns grey and the car stops looking expensive.

Pulling detail out of near-black without lifting it is the slow part of the job. There's a before-and-after on the Bugatti case study if you want to see what that does to one frame.

What it gets shot on

  • Sony A7R3 for stills, a Sigma 24-70mm for most frames and a Sony 50mm when the shot wants to be tighter.
  • Sony FX3 when the same car also needs moving footage, so the shoot doesn't have to happen twice.
  • A DJI RS5 gimbal and an Osmo Pocket for the video side, on the days it's both.
  • Delivered web-ready as well as full-size, because a listing page loaded with full-size JPEGs is a slow listing page.

Who this is for

As an auto photographer, most of my work is inventory: a dealership or showroom that needs every car on the floor photographed the same way, so the listings look like one place sold them. The rest splits between rental fleets that need a clean set per car before it goes on a booking page, detailers and garages who want the finished job recorded properly, and brands that need one car shot as the product rather than as stock.

What a car photoshoot includes, and what each costs

I'm a vehicle photographer who sells by the day rather than by the frame, because the cost of a shoot is the travel, the setup and the grade, and those barely change between one car and two. The four options, straight from the pricing card:

  • Two-vehicle listing set, AED 1,250: two cars, both ready on arrival, shot in one visit at one prepared location in Dubai. An extra vehicle at the same visit is AED 450-550 each.
  • Half day, AED 2,250: 4 hours on site, up to 4 cars, 20 edited frames.
  • Full day, AED 4,200: 8 hours on site, up to 8 cars, 45 edited frames, with social crops included. A location shoot outside the showroom is AED 1,200 extra, permit coordination is AED 500 administration + authority fees at cost, and raw files are AED 1,200.
  • Retainer, AED 7,500/mo: 2 full days/mo on site, cars covered up to 12/mo and 80/mo edited images, for a showroom whose stock keeps turning over.

Every option comes with listing-ready crops and alt text on every image, so nothing has to be re-exported by somebody else afterwards, and it's delivered web-ready and full size: listing set same day; graded hero frames within 3 business days. The frames are exteriors, the three-quarter angles a listing lives on, and interior and detail frames per car.

One showroom, the whole inventory

The named work on this page is one client, Project One Motors in Al Quoz, and it's the whole of that showroom's inventory rather than one car: I've shot all 491 cars there since 2023, every one the same way, so the listings read as one place. The Bugatti Chiron Super Sport study is a separate studio job, with the before-and-after grade beside it, and it's there because a single frame is a better argument than a follower count.

The stills and the page they end up on

Car photography almost always ends up on a website, a listing or an ad, and images are usually the reason those are slow. I build the sites too - the Project One Motors rebuild loads in 0.4 seconds with the cars on it - so I know what the page needs before the shoot rather than after somebody has to re-export everything at half the size.

Updated September 2026

PricingWhat a half day, a full day and a monthly retainer of stills cost

FAQ

Questions people actually ask

How much does a car photoshoot in Dubai cost?

A two-vehicle listing set is AED 1,250, a half day is AED 2,250 and a full day is AED 4,200, with a monthly retainer at AED 7,500/mo. Those are the published starting prices for a showroom shoot, and they move with cars, location and whether video is added. I've also written up the six things that push a car photoshoot price up or down, so you can price your own job before anyone sends a quote.

How many cars and photos are in a half day or a full day?

A half day covers up to 4 cars in 4 hours on site and delivers 20 edited images. A full day covers up to 8 cars in 8 hours and delivers 45. Both include listing-ready crops with alt text, and the full day adds social crops.

How fast do I get the photos?

Listing set same day; graded hero frames within 3 business days. The listing set is cropped and web-ready, and the graded hero frames are the ones where the black has to be held by hand. Raw files are AED 1,200 on the full day.

Do I need a permit to photograph a car in Dubai?

Not on a showroom floor or on private property with the owner's say-so, which is where most of this work happens. Public roads and landmarks are a different bucket. If a shoot needs permit coordination, it's AED 500 administration + authority fees at cost on the full day, and I've written up where the actual lines are rather than guessing on a landing page.

Can you shoot photo and video on the same day?

Yes, and it usually makes more sense than booking twice. One call time, one set of access arrangements, one person: A7R3 for the stills, FX3 for the moving frames. The alternative is a second shoot on a different day, hoping the light and the car are both still available.

Do you shoot for private owners, or only dealers?

Mostly dealers and showrooms, because that's where the volume is and where a consistent set matters most. A private owner with one car is welcome on a listing set if the car is ready and the location is straightforward; it's the same shoot, just shorter, and the two-vehicle set starts at AED 1,250.

Who's the best car photographer in Dubai?

No honest answer to that is a name. What you can actually check: whether the portfolio is full of cars or one supercar somebody got access to once, whether the dark cars in it still have panel detail or have gone flat black, and whether the reflections are controlled or the photographer is standing in the paint. Judge the frames, not the follower count. I shoot on a Sony A7R3 with a Sigma 24-70mm, but the body matters far less than where the car is standing.

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